Just days after the widely acknowledged 10th anniversary of Facebook, the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) took to Twitter to announce the hacking of the company’s website. In a message posted on the SEA Twitter account, the group wrote that it owned Fac...

One of the two main hackers of the infamous Syrian Electronic Army, only known as "Th3 Pr0," was browsing Twitter on Thursday night, when he saw something he didn't like. It was a CNN story on a recent report that alleged Bashar al-Assad's regime is ...

A cyberattack attributed to the Syrian Electronic Army on Thursday gained access to CNN's twitter feed and website, posting a series of tweets and a story -- all of which the network removed as fast as it could. A series of tweets from @CNN were sent...

The Syrian Electronic Army struck again Saturday, hacking a Twitter account that belongs to Microsoft. The Microsoft News (@MSFTnews) account posted the following tweet just after 2:30 p.m. ET, before it was quickly removed. The SEA also tweeted the ...

UPDATE - Jan. 1, 11:50 p.m. ET: A Skype spokesperson told Mashable, “We recently became aware of a targeted cyber attack that led to access to Skype’s social media properties, but these credentials were quickly reset. No user information was compromi...

For the second time in three years, hackers have breached the security systems at The Washington Post. The newspaper was alerted to the incursion on Wednesday from cybersecurity firm Mandiant, according to a report from the Post's own tech reporter, ...

The pro-Assad group Syrian Electronic Army claims it hacked the Twitter and Facebook accounts of U.S. President Barack Obama. In an exclusive email to Mashable sent from an account believed to belong to the SEA on Monday, the group notified us of the...

The frequency of attacks that the infamous Syrian Electronic Army carries out may correlate with the number of President Obama's public statements about Syria and its civil war. Researchers at Recorded Future, a firm that analyzes publicly available ...

New Mac malware found in the wild has been linked to the Syrian Electronic Army, but the mysterious hacker group is denying any involvement in making, or spreading, the trojan. On Tuesday, a researcher at security firm Intego revealed in a blog post ...

During the week, we consume words in snackable, tweetable bites. But on the weekends, we have the time to take a dive into the murkier, lengthier depths of the Internet and expand our attention spans beyond 140 characters. We can brew a cup of coffee...

The Pentagon was in the process of hiring help to bolster the security of military website domains, just as Syrian hackers allegedly assaulted the Marine Corps’ recruitment site on Labor Day. The Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-regime hacktivist group,...

On Tuesday afternoon, the New York Times' website became inaccessible and was spotty much of Wednesday. How could one of the biggest media companies in the world go down for a day or more? Turns out the New York Times' website was hit with a domain n...

A Syrian graphic designer reported to be a member of the Syrian Electronic Army has vehemently denied what he says is an unfounded claim. Security reporter Brian Krebs published Wednesday a story on his blog claiming to have revealed the identity of ...

The Syrian Electronic Army, a mysterious pro-Assad hacker group, struck again Tuesday afternoon, taking control of The New York Times and Twitter Internet domains, among others. The Syrian hackers compromised these high-profile websites by targeting ...

The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has reportedly hacked into the DNS accounts for Twitter and the New York Times. The Twitter attack is particularly disruptive because it has made viewing images on Twitter.com and in some apps very difficult. A DNS re...

The latest attack by the Syrian Electronic Army, a group of pro-Assad hackers, was first revealed on Thursday by a brief editor's note on The Washington Post's website. The attack compromised the content delivery service Outbrain, as reported by E Ha...

The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) hacked into content recommendation service Outbrain and its admin panel. The SEA acknowledged the attack to E Hacking News and provided screenshots showing that the service's admin panel and website backend were both ...

The Syrian Electronic Army strikes again. Two days after attacking SocialFlow and several journalists, the group of hackers claimed another victim on Thursday: The Washington Post. The attack was revealed by The Washington Post online in a short edit...

Thomson Reuters appears to be the latest victim of hacking by the Syrian Electronic Army. The media company's Twitter account, @ThomsonReuters, tweeted links to images of political cartoons that support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, along with th...

The hacktivist collective Anonymous pledged to support protesters in Turkey by attacking "every Internet and communication asset of the Turkish government." Now they've been joined in their fight by another infamous group of hackers, the Syrian Elect...

The Syrian Electronic Army claimed credit for hacking one of British television network ITV's Twitter accounts Friday. One of the SEA's hijacked tweets linked to a story about Twitter's recently introduced two-step verification, aimed at preventing s...

Add the Financial Times to the list of publications who have been compromised in recent months by an anonymous hacker collective calling itself the "Syrian Electronic Army." One FT blog and multiple social media accounts were hacked into on Friday mo...

We all thought it was a joke, but it wasn't. The Onion really got hacked on Monday, and it was indeed victim of the Syrian Electronic Army (SAE), the pro-Assad group of "hacktivists" who have been hacking media companies left and right. In an unusual...

The Onion's Twitter account on Monday appeared to have been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army, though there's always the possibility that it could be a joke. The account began tweeting strange messages around 1 p.m. EDT, starting with this: Israel...

The Obama administration's social media outreach apparently does not extend to countering market-moving falsified tweets about the White House. Midday on Tuesday, a hacked Associated Press Twitter account informed the public that blasts at the White ...

The branded Twitter accounts for the CBS television network news shows 60 Minutes and 48 Hours, as well as the Twitter account of at least one CBS affiliate TV station, were hijacked over the weekend by pro-Syrian government hackers. The accounts wer...

The official Twitter accounts of the World Cup and FIFA's President Joseph Blatter have been hacked, apparently by Syrian hackers. On Monday afternoon, both @FifaWorldCup and @SeppBlatter started sending weird tweets, hinting that hackers had taken o...

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